100 years later and we’re still listening to you radio. You’ve pioneered the way we come together as a community. You’ve managed to strive through so many technological advances. You hung around when home media and music consumption was easier to obtain. You stuck through the MTV and television era. You kept us company during the early age of the internet. And you still keep me company today. It would be so sad to see the cell phone social media era kill the glue that truly keeps us together. I grew up listening to the radio, any genre, any station. Im 27 years old and would be devastated if I couldn’t flip through the dial in my later years.
Very interesting. I'd like you see this channel do a video on the recording of old radio broadcasts. There has been much understandable lamenting over the loss of old films so what I want to know is this. How were these radio broadcasts recorded, why were they recorded and how many such recordings have survived down to our day? Also where are they archived and how can they be accessed?
This is surprisingly moving, especially the roll call of the city phone offices. The technical efforts to make this country one via long distance phone, radio, and transportation by rail and highways suggest how far we have fallen from a desire to be a unified country--if the infrastructure had not been developed by such clever and far-seeing people, I wonder if we would care about creating it now?
A "unified country"? Not any more. Forced integration of every manner of disparate "ways of being," this ostensibly so as to achieve equality (of effective misery being the actual result), augurs powerfully against it. As for your last question, it mostly is now that most desire to be apart from others, especially novelly of ONE particular like-kind, which sort here I'll not mention. This has been infused deeply into psyches by they that do it to such purpose. In-the-main, that separatist goal has been achieved. On a personal level the only solution leading to avoidance is to physically absent one's self from the environs of the monstrous construct, as IT cannot any longer be repaired to any purpose of backwards progress but rather only forward, and that being directly into THE SOCIAL CHIPPER; decimated human remains blowing out the thing's side-posterior. Sad, huh? C'est la vie !!
Amazing they put that together so well at such an early stage of radio. Government continued a laser-focus on radio --- the 1930 Census had a question asking if the household had a radio!
Very nice production and I really appreciate you taking your viewers into the mind-set of listeners and participants in 1924: helps us to be grateful for what we have I think.
While this thing is much more easily possible today. It's still mind-blowing to think that this happened just 99 years ago. I remember watching I believe the Grammy awards sometime in the '70s and them trying to play a live satellite broadcast of Stevie Wonder at a concert in South Africa. He appeared on the screen it was pretty choppy, and not well enough to be able to hear him. This radio test appeared to have far fewer technical glitches granted the station to station transmission was by phone and not wireless.
This was fantastic. I only discovered this recording over the last couple of years and this video is ESSENTIAL in understanding it. Because as you say: it's not riveting at all! You gleaned out the best parts! The very human interaction between the two men is both fascinating and life-affirming, just like overhearing a telephone call, as you said. I think after this, the oldest existing broadcast is the New Year's broadcast of 1926, am I wrong?
That year this was equivalent to seeing the second full-length feature Silent in Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, and a lee deforest talking shorts.
One method I recall is where station B would broadcast what it received over the air from station A. Then, at a further distance, station C would broadcast what it received over the air from station B. And so forth across the nation
I remember when satellite communications to the other side of the world was a new thing. Also remember in early internet having AOL and people on your friend list would show up in the screen if they were on at that time. How a person on the list in Australia would show up the same as guy next door.
If you listen to the roll call of radio stations on the original recording, you'll hear "WLAG" respond for Minneapolis. Technically, WLAG had gone off the air by then due to financial difficulties, but it was brought back on the air just so it could participate in the National Defense Day broadcast. Not long after that, the station was bought by the Washburn-Crosby company (hence the switch to the WCCO call sign=Washburn Crosby Company). (My only complaint is the announcer says "Minneanopolis" instead of "Minneapolis.") It will celebrate its 100th anniversary of broadcasting next year.
My high score in the “History Quiz” (1920’s) is due to your channel . Thank you !
100 years later and we’re still listening to you radio. You’ve pioneered the way we come together as a community. You’ve managed to strive through so many technological advances. You hung around when home media and music consumption was easier to obtain. You stuck through the MTV and television era. You kept us company during the early age of the internet. And you still keep me company today. It would be so sad to see the cell phone social media era kill the glue that truly keeps us together. I grew up listening to the radio, any genre, any station. Im 27 years old and would be devastated if I couldn’t flip through the dial in my later years.
Listening to the generals speak casually between one another, was truly a time from history. That was time ghosts 😊
Very interesting. I'd like you see this channel do a video on the recording of old radio broadcasts. There has been much understandable lamenting over the loss of old films so what I want to know is this. How were these radio broadcasts recorded, why were they recorded and how many such recordings have survived down to our day? Also where are they archived and how can they be accessed?
This is surprisingly moving, especially the roll call of the city phone offices. The technical efforts to make this country one via long distance phone, radio, and transportation by rail and highways suggest how far we have fallen from a desire to be a unified country--if the infrastructure had not been developed by such clever and far-seeing people, I wonder if we would care about creating it now?
A "unified country"?
Not any more.
Forced integration of every manner of disparate "ways of being," this ostensibly so as to achieve equality (of effective misery being the actual result), augurs powerfully against it.
As for your last question, it mostly is now that most desire to be apart from others, especially novelly of ONE particular like-kind, which sort here I'll not mention. This has been infused deeply into psyches by they that do it to such purpose. In-the-main, that separatist goal has been achieved.
On a personal level the only solution leading to avoidance is to physically absent one's self from the environs of the monstrous construct, as IT cannot any longer be repaired to any purpose of backwards progress but rather only forward, and that being directly into THE SOCIAL CHIPPER; decimated human remains blowing out the thing's side-posterior.
Sad, huh?
C'est la vie !!
We spend all our money on weapons while the nation crumbles.
Amazing they put that together so well at such an early stage of radio. Government continued a laser-focus on radio --- the 1930 Census had a question asking if the household had a radio!
More houses had radios than refrigerators!
Very nice production and I really appreciate you taking your viewers into the mind-set of listeners and participants in 1924: helps us to be grateful for what we have I think.
Gotta say you'd channel is underrated. I think if you consistently released 10min videos you'd be blowing up
I've never heard "Iowa" pronounced quite like that... LOL
I'm always impressed when someone can tell *me* something new about the 1920s. Thank you!
Well you have done a nice job (again)...now you need a 1920's radio! i listen to one every day
Do you collect them?
While this thing is much more easily possible today. It's still mind-blowing to think that this happened just 99 years ago. I remember watching I believe the Grammy awards sometime in the '70s and them trying to play a live satellite broadcast of Stevie Wonder at a concert in South Africa. He appeared on the screen it was pretty choppy, and not well enough to be able to hear him. This radio test appeared to have far fewer technical glitches granted the station to station transmission was by phone and not wireless.
Thank you for sharing these recordings! ✨️
Thanks for posting. The participating stations for the “The National Defense Test" were:
WCAP (Washington, DC); WEAF (New York, NY); WJAR (Providence, RI); WNAC (Boston,
MA); WOO (Philadelphia, PA); WGY (Schenectady, NY); WGR (Buffalo, NY); KDKA
(Pittsburgh, PA); WSB (Atlanta, GA); WLW (Cincinnati, OH); WGN (Chicago, IL); KSD (St.
Louis, MO); WDAF (Kansas City, MO); WLAG (Minneapolis, MA); WOAW (Omaha, NE);
WFAA (Dallas, TX); KLZ (Denver, CO); and KGO (San Francisco, CA).
This was fantastic. I only discovered this recording over the last couple of years and this video is ESSENTIAL in understanding it. Because as you say: it's not riveting at all! You gleaned out the best parts! The very human interaction between the two men is both fascinating and life-affirming, just like overhearing a telephone call, as you said. I think after this, the oldest existing broadcast is the New Year's broadcast of 1926, am I wrong?
It was recorded over telephone lines; the audio quality is top-notch for the time.
This was pretty cool!
That year this was equivalent to seeing the second full-length feature Silent in Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, and a lee deforest talking shorts.
One method I recall is where station B would broadcast what it received over the air from station A. Then, at a further distance, station C would broadcast what it received over the air from station B. And so forth across the nation
Have you seen the german series Babylon Berlin? It is set in the late 1920s and inwould strongly recomend it!
I remember when satellite communications to the other side of the world was a new thing.
Also remember in early internet having AOL and people on your friend list would show up in the screen if they were on at that time. How a person on the list in Australia would show up the same as guy next door.
I loved it! Something totally new I'd never heard of before. And I go back a way! I love anything about early radio! 👍♥️💥
So interesting, hearing those voices from the past.
Speaking about this broadcast is unique.
That front page article at"3:00" is interested! Seems things haven't changed much in 100 years!😮
Thank you!
AM radio has very long range especially at night. The signal bounces off the atmosphere and comes back down.
If you listen to the roll call of radio stations on the original recording, you'll hear "WLAG" respond for Minneapolis. Technically, WLAG had gone off the air by then due to financial difficulties, but it was brought back on the air just so it could participate in the National Defense Day broadcast. Not long after that, the station was bought by the Washburn-Crosby company (hence the switch to the WCCO call sign=Washburn Crosby Company). (My only complaint is the announcer says "Minneanopolis" instead of "Minneapolis.") It will celebrate its 100th anniversary of broadcasting next year.
Was this bases on a surviving 78 rpm recording?
General Pershing's old service buddies get long-winded at his retirement tribute. But enjoyable for military historians.
Interesting
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No me interesa tu voz...audios de esa época....
I believe he uploaded the audio before.
Excellent job 👏